Emily Forland Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Emily Forland

🌴Hooray for THE POEM FOREST! Wishing such a happy day to Carrie Fountain and her glorious picture book that tells the story of Poet W.S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew From Scratch, exquisitely illustrated by Chris Turnham. @Candlewick🌴 https://t.co/XHkCYcTczB

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In PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS “Chris Harding Thornton has crafted a lyrical ode to a harsh landscape that deserves its place in the canon of rural noir.” https://t.co/OTUFZw7VcA

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Wishing a very happy publication day to Cathy Curtis on A SPLENDID INTELLIGENCE: THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH HARDWICK, the vibrant first biography of its extraordinary subject. Out today from @wwnorton.

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via @NYTimes Happy publication day to Amy Rowland’s deeply moving INSIDE THE WOLF, “a vital Southern novel that speaks to a violent American legacy (NYT).” https://t.co/POwtftRJUZ

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Happy publication day to Susan Hartman and CITY OF REFUGEES a vibrant portrait of three newcomers who helped revitalize the fading industrial town of Utica, NY. @BeaconPressBks https://t.co/ZpdLR4fsdb

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“The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus…No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan’s imagination better. FOLK MUSIC [is] another ingenious book of close listening.” -David Remnick, The New Yorker https://t.co/81Pd1a817B

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Happy pub day @GreilMarcus.net! “In FOLK MUSIC, Greil Marcus has captured an entire world of the creative and cultural development of the artist known as Bob Dylan in a single book. How does Marcus do it?…I have no answers at all, only admiration and respect.”—The Spectator https://t.co/Rb9PbimMeE

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Alice Fulton’s new collection COLORATURA ON A SILENCE FOUND IN MANY EXPRESSIVE SYSTEMS is out! NYT says “joy and grief circle in this nimble collection from one of America’s marquee poets, who balances philosophical intensity with deft wordplay.”

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Fun to see Rax King’s TACKY included here, cover by my better half https://t.co/h3qeTe4CDv https://t.co/4AUDGbm5eu

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Happy Book Birthday to Carrie Fountain’s THE LIFE, poems brimming with goldfish and orange Jell-O, lullabies and Lego, Lucky Charms, enchilada casseroles, sleeping babies, and heaven. @penguinusa https://t.co/0guzXIyLYW